Newcastle Playtest meetup

Ever designed a game and wanted to see how it plays? Enjoy playing games and being creative? Do you know what makes a game fun? Don't leave your game ideas sitting on the shelf gathering dust; show them off at the first Newcastle Playtest meetup and get feedback direct from the players.

We are a friendly group of board/card game designers who are creating a regular playtesting event on the first Tuesday of the month at The Bridge Hotel in Newcastle (NE1 1RQ right next to the castle keep). Our first meet is Tuesday 6th August at 7pm.

Everyone is welcome to join us and bring along their own designs or settle down to play and give their opinion. We look forward to welcoming you at the meetup!

Yeah, I think the game needs to have slightly more bits to properly support the theme, and improve opportunity for strategy and tactics as opposed to just reacting. I think it needs a 'Disco' track as well as a 'Damage' track :-)

Whenever you do damage or block you put a token on the next card. Those cards aren't destroyed, but locked in place. All other cards are then rearranged secretly and simultaneously. Needed some work, but it did solve it a bit.

Really great first session! Thank you all for coming! Some great games were played. Particularly Kick Punch Stop (I agree with Paul that it should be disco-ed up) and the civilization game that Mark brought. Looking forward to mad monks and the fat duck at the next session!

Thanks! and thanks for organising. Had a great evening and really enjoyed Samizdat. I enjoyed rolling dice. I enjoyed lots of coloured dice and deciding where to place them.
I have a feeling that a large number of dice could improve Kick Punch Stomp: something to do with placing the dice on your cards to power up your funk, soul or disco...

And your placement of dice on face down or up cards could say something about your intentions,and also offer a way to bid for turn order.

Gutted I couldn't make it :( I got a phone call from The Wife on the way over - I had to go home and take The Daughter to hospital. All well, but an evening in the RVI was a lot less fun than playtesting :(

Hey there. I enjoyed all three games I played and was really intrigued by the KGB one. Had a great time, which considering I'd felt ill all day, made it a real tonic. And the beer helped.

I got a bit distracted at the end, so I needed to leave a bit of feedback for Michal's game, which I thought was really neat. There was lots to think about, without it being overly complicated. I got myself in a real muddle, which was great fun. I think perhaps you need to think about the customers who stay over till the next day if not fed. Maybe the customers leave if not fed without paying and you get the negative face customer in your score pile and they leave unfed and leave no money. Unless you have the celeb, then you avoid the negative token in your score pile, as they leave unfed but happy. Other than that, great :)

Anyway, I found it really inspiring, and will try and get some games ready for next month.

We're about:

We are a friendly group of board/card game designers and playtesters set up in London in 2010. We meet to play games and each other's design prototypes.

Everyone is welcome to join us and bring along their own designs or settle down to play and give their opinion. Ever designed a game and wanted to see how it plays? Enjoy playing games and being creative? Do you know what makes a game fun? Don't leave your game ideas sitting on the shelf gathering dust; show them off at the next Playtest meetup and get feedback direct from the players. We look forward to welcoming you at the next meetup!

Our London group meet on the 3rd Sunday and 2nd Monday of each month and we have weekly meetup in Cambridge on a Tuesday night, a monthly meetup group in Newcastle, a bi-monthly meetup in Brighton, a weekly meetup in Cardiff and a monthly group in Leeds. There is a monthly group newsletter.